Welcome to St Stephens By Launceston Rural Parish Council website
Langore * Truscott * Dutson
Ordinary Parish Council meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at Langore Village Hall at 7.30pm. Time and date may occasionally change, please see the Agenda page here.
Our Parish Council Meetings are now being recorded by video. The video recordings of past meetings can be found on the website here.
Bus Timetable for Cornwall
The current Bus Timetable that covers the whole of Cornwall can be found by following this link.
Latest News
- Big Butterfly Count 2023
The Butterfly Conservation is running the Big Butterfly Count which is a UK-wide survey aimed at helping them assess the health of our environment simply by counting the amount and type of butterflies (and some day-flying moths) we see.
The Big Butterfly Count begins on Friday 14th July 2023 and will run until Sunday 6th August.
- CIVILITY AND RESPECT PLEDGE
MISSION STATEMENT
Civility and respect should be at the heart of public life, and good governance is fundamental to ensuring an effective and well-functioning democracy at all levels.
The intimidation, abuse, bullying and harassment of councillors, clerks and council staff, in person or online, is unacceptable, whether by councillors, clerks, council staff, or public members.
This can prevent councils from functioning effectively, councillors from representing local people, discourage people from getting involved, including standing for election, and undermine public confidence and trust in local democracy.
NALC, county associations and OVW, as the membership organisations
representing the first tier of local government in England and Wales, and the SLCC, as the professional body for clerks, are committed to working together to promote civility and respect in public life, good governance, positive debate and supporting the well-being of councillors, professional officers and staff.
To that end, the Civility and Respect Working Group will be working to deliver tangible resources, actions and interventions in four main areas: providing councils with the tools to support good governance; lobbying to strengthen the standards regime and encouraging more people to get involved; training; and processes to intervene to provide support to struggling councils.Adopted 5 January 2023
About The Parish
St Stephen by Launceston Rural Parish is a civil parish in the east of Cornwall. The former parish of St Stephen by Launceston was abolished in 1894. St Stephen by Launceston Urban became part of Launceston Town and includes the 13th Century Church of St Stephen. St Stephen by Launceston Rural Parish surrounds the town of Launceston on three sides. It stretches from the River Tamar on the Devon border in the east to Egloskerry in the west. It is bounded to the north by Werrington and North Petherwin, and to the south by Lawhitton and St Thomas.
The Parish includes the designated Area of Great Landscape Value based on the Kensey Valley and the Parish Council has land designated as Village Greens in Langore and Truscott. Truscott Ponds and verges south of the pond are planted and maintained by the Parish Council to conserve and increase biodiversity.
The Parish is essentially rural but has a thriving retail outlet at Homeleigh in the Dutson area to the east. In 2016, there were approximately 166 households in the rural parish and the population at the 2011 Census was 360.
Please click or tap on the slideshow above to view the full-size images.
You can also view the map of the parish on Google Maps.
Neighbourhood Plan Documents